January 1, 1867 to December 31, 1947

Concern with morality and charity dominated the thoughts of many devout Christians in the South. W.D. Cabell, a graduate of the University of Virginia and principal of the Norwood High School in Nelson County, Virginia, was just such a man. In his journal he often pondered the effect his own life would have on those around him, and beseeched the Lord for help in doing good works. In 1867, Cabell...

After the abolition of slavery in 1865, there were many significant changes in Southern society. The economy of the South was still dependent on agriculture, however, as most of its land consisted of rural areas that needed to be farmed. Former slaves, now freedmen, were no longer bonded to harsh labor without benefits. Emancipation resulted in contracts between ex-masters and freedmen agreeing...

Many Southerners before the Civil War viewed the Northerners as tyrants similar to King George III. In War Poetry of the South, "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy" Henry Timrod wrote "Carolina" and the words on page 113:

William Gilmore Simms accredited the women of the South with winning the Civil War. He dedicated War Poetry of the South (published in both 1866 and 1867) to the women who had "shown themselves worthy of any manhood" through their "virtuous effort and womanly endurance." He applauded mothers, sisters, and wives for their displays of courage and endurance even while they sacrificed everything...

African Americans have endured a lot of hardships throughout the civil war time period leading up to Reconstruction. Historians have found evidence and were able to piece the history of the time period due to documents left behind from people, allowing readers to understand the conditions that plagued the African American population during the Civil War and Reconstruction period. Important...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the states of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi all had large state penitentiaries with them, where African-American men and women resided. Many people visited these prisons to listen to and record these talented men and women singing, including the famous folklorists John Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Dr. Harry Oster. The recorded singers talked about...

Despite the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act in 1866, the Kentucky Legislature rejected both acts on January 7, 1867, by the votes of 62-26 and 24-7. The acts secured the citizenship and Civil Rights to all Americans whether black or white. The infringement of Civil Rights under the pretence of law and custom was made illegal, and the acts legalized the removal of cases...

On January 31, 1867, a marriage took place in Belmont, Nevada between Frank M. Main and a thirteen year-old girl by the name of Frank Ellis. Without the consent of her parents, the two were married by S. J. Davis, Justice of the Peace in Nye County, Nevada. “On the morning of the day following the marriage the father of the child missed her, and suspecting the cause of her absence he went to Main’s...

On February 17, 1867 the New York Times reported on an act of reoccurring rebelliousness that happened within the city of Richmond, Virginia. The incident that sparked all of the emotion was the display of the Confederate Flag during an event within the city. Members of Congress and other Union loyalists decided that this act of rebelliousness proved that some of the southern states...

In January 1868, black and white men came together for the first time in a legislative body in Arkansas to discuss the state's re-entry into the Union.The participating delegates consisted of 47 Arkansas whites, 17 outside whites, and eight African Americans.According to Richard L. Hume, the Arkansas convention was unique, however, because it contained extensive debates about the role of race.The...